Bangkok/Chiang Mai advice

[vinapu]

5 minutes ago, Keithambrose said:

Doubt if Olddaddy knows where Alice Springs is!

of course he does, he was born there but left as a toddler and never returned

[PeterRS]

6 hours ago, vinapu said:

of course he does, he was born there but left as a toddler and never returned

The water was not to his liking! 

[Olddaddy]

I don't think Alice Springs would be my favourite City being rated number 1 as Australia's crime capital 😯🥷🥷

But .....it could be the exciting for us older Gay men,has cruising places around Ayers Rock/Uluru I'm sure 😃 and maybe plenty of local indigenous communities people 

I worked out to Sydney to Alice Springs .....is the same time equivalent of going from Sydney to Bangkok hence why I wouldn't waste my time 

[Olddaddy]

Could we get back on topic please !!

We shouldn't be talking about the Outback Australian city of The Alice ,  🦘

Do you think Grindr has many sexy guys in that city , probably farmer rugged types ?

Big beefy strong guys 

I wonder if the Aboriginal peoples are on Grindr 😃

Wasn't that famous Aussie transexuals movie made there ?

Priscilla Queen of the Desert 🏝️ 

[PeterRS]

1 hour ago, Olddaddy said:

Could we get back on topic please !!

You are funny! You want to get back on to the toic of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, and yet your "on topic" post is all about Australia. 🤣

[floridarob]

1 hour ago, Olddaddy said:

Could we get back on topic please !!

We shouldn't be talking about the Outback Australian city of The Alice ,  🦘

Do you think Grindr has many sexy guys in that city , probably farmer rugged types ?

Big beefy strong guys 

I wonder if the Aboriginal peoples are on Grindr 😃

Wasn't that famous Aussie transexuals movie made there ?

Priscilla Queen of the Desert 🏝️ 

It’s hilarious seeing your personalities negotiate with each other like a tiny UN summit 😝

[Kiwi306]

Really, Olddaddy, I have flown from Sydney to Bangkok. It takes 9 1/2 hours - roughly 6 hours longer than to Alice Springs.

 

[Olddaddy]

31 minutes ago, Kiwi306 said:

Really, Olddaddy, I have flown from Sydney to Bangkok. It takes 9 1/2 hours - roughly 6 hours longer than to Alice Springs.

 

It's a lot longer than 3 hours to Alice Springs from Sydney 

[PeterRS]

16 minutes ago, Olddaddy said:

It's a lot longer than 3 hours to Alice Springs from Sydney 

Again that's funny in a sort of weird way. Do you have your own DC3 that requires refuelling? Because Qantas says the flight time is 3 hrs. 20 mins. Now that fits almost exactly with @Kiwi306's estimate of 3 hrs. 30 mins.

[BjornAgain]

42 minutes ago, Olddaddy said:

It's a lot longer than 3 hours to Alice Springs from Sydney 

Australians have a habit of getting flight durations wrong, remember years ago pulling Jimmy Barnes of Cold Chisel up over the lyrics to Khe Sanh, their early 1980's Top-40 hit, where he wrote:-

Well, the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone
And only seven flying hours, I'll be landing in Hong Kong

Today it takes 09:40 hours. Jimmy's reply was "it rhymes better"!

 

[Keithambrose]

6 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

Could we get back on topic please !!

We shouldn't be talking about the Outback Australian city of The Alice ,  🦘

Do you think Grindr has many sexy guys in that city , probably farmer rugged types ?

Big beefy strong guys 

I wonder if the Aboriginal peoples are on Grindr 😃

Wasn't that famous Aussie transexuals movie made there ?

Priscilla Queen of the Desert 🏝️ 

It is interesting the way he asks questions  to which he already knows the answers!

[Keithambrose]

4 hours ago, floridarob said:

It’s hilarious seeing your personalities negotiate with each other like a tiny UN summit 😝

One wonders how many personalities he has! Endless number?

[vinapu]

back to topic

how long is flight from Alice Springs to Chiang Mai ? I'm looking at direct flight with 1 refuelling stop max

[forrestreid]

Getting even more back to topic of Chiang Mai...If somebody was planning on travelling to Chiang Mai in the near future, he could do worse than to read Shamelessmack's record of his visit there last December.

He writes about it on his blog, https://shamelessmacktwo.travel.blog/

Open the blog and search for Chiang Mai. It will bring up four or five entries, covering his adventures in places such as Circle pub, Adam Club  and the Acqua Club massage.

He gives you quite a good idea of what you will get from the places.

 

 

[jimmie50]

I thoroughly enjoy reading shamelessmack's travel blog.  I did read all of the posts about Chiang Mai as well as many others.  Unfortunately, he hasn't updated his site since May and I haven't seen any posts by him on this site recently, either.  Hope he is ok.  

[Olddaddy]

2 hours ago, jimmie50 said:

I thoroughly enjoy reading shamelessmack's travel blog.  I did read all of the posts about Chiang Mai as well as many others.  Unfortunately, he hasn't updated his site since May and I haven't seen any posts by him on this site recently, either.  Hope he is ok.  

A fantastic man 

He does seem to "disappear" for sometime then suddenly will re-emerge 

One case I believe years later😳

[MaxBKK]

On 8/18/2025 at 3:21 PM, floridarob said:

Who do you use now?

Nowadays, I take the slower route and use the bus from Suvarnabhumi Airport via the train system

To be fair to Mike’s taxi, unsafe drivers are everywhere. Thais have their own ways of calculating and managing risk and safety.

That was my one and only bad experience with Mike’s taxi. What put me off them was no response to the feedback I sent. That motivated me to look elsewhere….

[Olddaddy]

13 minutes ago, MaxBKK said:

That was my one and only bad experience with Mike’s taxi. What put me off them was no response to the feedback I sent. That motivated me to look elsewhere….

Yes that was the same for me 

I did get told Mike's changed owners though early last year 

[Min]

23 hours ago, Keithambrose said:

It is interesting the way he asks questions  to which he already knows the answers!

You mean "the way he asks questions  to which some of his personalities already know the answers, but some others haven't?"

[Min]

On 8/18/2025 at 2:30 PM, Olddaddy said:

Mike's has let me down twice in the last 8 months 

Driver had no idea how to get to.pattaya

2nd one without even telling me decided to stop off at a food stall on the highway,I thought he was going for a pee but sat down and ate leaving me in the air conditioning car for about 15 minutes ☹️

 

My last three trips with Mike all had problems (different prices quoted for me and the driver so I ended up paying 200B more, wrong pick-up time recorded in the system so they had to find a new driver at the last minute, dirty car & disheveled driver who looked like he'd been living in his car, et.) and as someone already reported here, they didn't seem to bother with responding to my feedback. So after years of using them, I decided it's time to let go. Stick mostly with Nam taxi & the bus nowadays.

[floridarob]

1 hour ago, Min said:

Nam taxi

Lady drivers?

[Keithambrose]

2 hours ago, Min said:

You mean "the way he asks questions  to which some of his personalities already know the answers, but some others haven't?"

Very good!

[thaiophilus]

On 8/16/2025 at 11:01 AM, Riobard said:

Oh the old my personal experience stands in for rational science argument. 

That's the one. Inductive logic and all that.

"Rational science" (is there another kind?) is based on evidence, for example when a personally-experienced BMW ride  falsifies a "no BMWs on offer" hypothesis.

[Olddaddy]

7 hours ago, Min said:

My last three trips with Mike all had problems (different prices quoted for me and the driver so I ended up paying 200B more, wrong pick-up time recorded in the system so they had to find a new driver at the last minute, dirty car & disheveled driver who looked like he'd been living in his car, et.) and as someone already reported here, they didn't seem to bother with responding to my feedback. So after years of using them, I decided it's time to let go. Stick mostly with Nam taxi & the bus nowadays.

Yes I gave Mike away too after their owners changed , 

Nam is the lady drivers , they were good too although they drive too slow 

[Olddaddy]

5 hours ago, floridarob said:

Lady drivers?

Yes , they were waiting for me at airport 

A young Thai girl  ,she offered to carry my luggage 🧳